He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. -Chinese Proverb
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it. -Henry Ford
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. -G.K. Chesterton
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. -Lord Chesterfield
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. -World Health Organization, 1948
The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. -Quentin Regestein
Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. -Elbert Hubbard
Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. -Denis Waitley
The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. -Helen Rowland
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. -William Temple
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. -Richard Baker
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. -George Dennison Prentice
Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies. -John Gay
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. -Adelle Davis
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. -James H. Boren
Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.--Margiad Evans
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. -Laurence Sterne
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. -Leo Tolstoy
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. -G.K. Chesterton
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. -Ivan Illich
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." -Jim Rohn
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones. -Peter McWilliams
To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. -William Londen
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. -Addison
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. -Herbert Spencer
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. -Albert Schweitzer
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. -Laurence Sterne
Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. -Sydney J. Harris
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. -John Mortimer
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. -A.J. Reb Materi
If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself. -Leon Eldred
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -Redd Foxx
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. -Mark Twain
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. -Spanish proverb
